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TAMPA, Fla. — Robert Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him a reputation as a pioneer in pop art but whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance, has died, his gallery representative said Tuesday. He was 82. Rauschenberg died Monday, said Jennifer Joy, his...
An 1873 canvas by Monet of a riverbank landscape with two trains atop a railway bridge sold for $41.4 million Tuesday night at Christie's. It was a record price for the artist. Three bidders competed for the painting, "The Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil," which is considered a prime example of high Impressionism....
For the owner of Power Exchange in San Francisco, running a sex club is a family affair. As Michael Powers explains, Mom spent a day or two painting the kinky dairy cow room, 21-year-old son Joshua split his childhood between a Mormon mother and his slightly more devilish dad, and little sister Jennifer started...
Tony Curtis is in London for an exhibition of his painting at legendary department store Harrod's. At Thursday's opening, he showed up bald, dressed in a cowboy hat and in a wheelchair. The Daily Mail reports: The frail 82-year-old visited Harrods to launch an exhibition of his paintings but was unable to make the...
Looks like the country we should be most worried about when it comes to arming rogue nations is ourselves. U.S. officials have admitted they mistakenly shipped fuses for an intercontinental ballistic missile to Taiwan in 2006. Besides painting a frightening picture of our military's nuclear security provisions,...
No one benefits -- except maybe some "Mainway"-like businesses -- when we make our police officers work even harder to distinguish real guns from toy guns.
As a society we're comfortable praising a painting in a museum or a piece of music at Carnegie Hall. Fashion is no different. The artistic process to create it is one and the same.
She's lovely of course, Parmigianino's "Antea." Standing alone in the centre of the Oval Room at the Frick, surrounded by portraits that somehow pale in comparison. She has turned to regard you, almost at eye level, still and composed. She is, as the show is appropriately called, "A Beautiful Artifice": a tiny...